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Texas A&M graduate architecture students impressed a design jury at a 2011 Nashville healthcare design conference with their concept to convert an antiquated public health facility to a holistic healing center for “everyday athletes.”

An award-winning solar light device developed at the Texas A&M Department of Architecture that can significantly reduce electric bills by delivering a bounty of natural sunlight deep into the interior of a building, will soon enter a new phase of development at the College of Architecture’s Digital Fabrication Facility.

Former students and friends are invited to join their former classmates and professors May 18 at the annual Aggie AIA Reception at the American Institute of Architects' 2012 national convention in Washington, D.C.

The Department of Construction Science has launched a $5 million campaign to adapt and renovate historic Francis Hall as the state’s first facility dedicated to construction teaching, research and industry service.

An upcoming edition of a classic textbook featuring a comprehensive collection of architectural drawing conventions and techniques will include examples of Texas A&M architecture and visualization student work.

An exhibition retracing a landmark 1972 New York Museum of Modern Art exhibit of Italian design co-curated by Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture, was lauded as one of the world’s 2011 cultural highlights.

Texas A&M’s celebration of Black History Month began Feb. 1 with an exhibit of the acclaimed “Torchbearers” series of portraits by Robert Schiffhauer, associate professor of architecture, at the Langford Architecture Center’s Wright Gallery.

Architectural concepts for a gallery and product showroom for Alessi, the world-renowned Italian kitchenware company, developed by two Texas A&M University environmental design students, are featured on suckerPUNCH, a popular and important Internet design forum.

Jeff Potter ‘78, is focusing on making the AIA more meaningful to emerging members of the profession and advancing the value of design during his one-year tenure as president of the 76,000-member American Institute of Architects.

At a Feb. 15 town hall-style meeting a distinguished panel will focus on how shifting perceptions of black culture, politics and ethnicity has affected the ways blacks are perceived and discussed in today’s culture.

After two decades focused on improving the quality of life for residents of the impoverished, relatively undeveloped villages, or “colonias,” clumped near population centers on the U.S. side of the Texas-Mexico border, the Texas A&M University Colonias Program is celebrating its achievements.

A diverse group of architectural design and academic leaders shared their expertise at the Texas A&M Department of Architecture’s 2012 Spring Lecture Series. The lectures, open to the public, took place in Preston Geren Auditorium.

Historic preservation efforts undertaken after natural and manmade disasters were the focus of “Disaster,” the 13th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium at the Langford Architecture Center.

Relationships between architectural design and health care for the under and uninsured are the focus of the Center for Health Systems & Design’s Spring 2012 Architecture-for-Health Lecture Series.

Nominations for the 2012 College of Architecture Outstanding Alumni Awards, which annually recognize former students of exceptional accomplishment, are being accepted through Feb. 10. Since its inception in 1997, less than one percent of the college’s former students have received the award, the college’s highest honor.